Cassie Gardner

With her mother on 'Lost and Found,' Cassie is not the most cheerful candidate on the show. She is a typical seventeen-year-old girl who is straining at the apron strings while at the same time craving the security of the family unit. With just her mother, who works a full time job at the school Cassie attended as a child, Cassie isn't exactly plagued by an overbearing parental unit. In fact, she spends a great deal of time feeling isolated from the rest of the world. Her father died in a car accident so early in her life that she has no recollection of him.

Cassie discovers at an early age that she is gay, although she doesn't recognize it as such at the time. In those days, she simply saw her interest in a particular television star as an adolescent crush. She gave little thought...